Month: October 2017

today’s goals:

• add a green LED to your Circuit Builder program.
• show Mr. Milstead your working stoplight program
• move on to Part 2 and Part 3 to build your stoplight circuit and program in real life using your Arduino and breadboard.

Part 1: your assignment is to add to your current circuit so that it works like a standard stoplight.  Here’s what you need to do in Tinkercad circuit builder:

1. Add your name to the first line of your program with a comment. Like this:  //Rod Milstead.  Put two slashes in front of your name like this //Rod Milstead
2. add a green LED, wiring and resistor to your circuit.
3. connect this green LED to pin 11.
4. add a variable to your program for the green LED.
5. add code to your program so that it works like this:
   1. Green LED on for two seconds (2000 milliseconds).  All other LEDs off.
   2. Green LED off and yellow LED on for half a second (500 milliseconds).
   3. Yellow LED off and Red LED on for one second.

After you have completed and tested your program SHOW ME your working program  for credit.   Then move on to Part 2.

Part 2: Build a physical circuit that is a real world example of your stoplight circuit.  You will start with your Arduino and breadboard.

Part 3: Search your computer for the Arduino program.  Copy and paste your program from Tinkercad Circuit builder into the Arduino program.  Upload your stoplight program into your Arduino and test it.

Last day to turn in this work:

1. Follow the Part 1 Tutorial.  Build the circuit as your follow the tutorial.
2. Then complete the Part 2 Tutorial.  Use your part 1 circuit and add components as you follow part 2.
3. Done?  Click here to submit part 2 where one LED is blinking.  
4. Now follow this tutorial to add multiple blinking lights to your Arduino circuit and sketch.  Click here to submit this completed circuit that blinks MULTIPLE LEDs in sequence.

Once you have uploaded your virtual programs above:

1. Use your code from that blinks MULTIPLE LEDs and build a circuit using your Arduino and breadboard.  Then upload your code to the Arduino.  Show Mr. Milstead your working circuit.
2. Now add a button input to your programming skills. Follow this link for details.

Today’s work:

1. Continuous vs. standard servos.
2. Connect and program a REAL continuous and REAL standard servo to your Arduino and breadboard.
3. Modify your servo program so that the circuit is controlled by an input.
4. Add and program a warning light to your servo circuit.

From last week…

1. Follow the Part 1 Tutorial.  Build the circuit as your follow the tutorial.
2. Then complete the Part 2 Tutorial.  Use your part 1 circuit and add components as you follow part 2.
3. Done?  Click here to submit part 2 where one LED is blinking.  
4. Now follow this tutorial to add multiple blinking lights to your Arduino circuit and sketch.  Click here to submit this completed circuit that blinks MULTIPLE LEDs in sequence.

Once you have uploaded your virtual programs above:

1. Use your code from that blinks MULTIPLE LEDs and build a circuit using your Arduino and breadboard.  Then upload your code to the Arduino.  Show Mr. Milstead your working circuit.
2. Now add a button input to your programming skills. Follow this link for details.

today:

>what is an Arduino?
>what is a resistor?
>parts of an Arduino program
>solving common Arduino problems

1. Follow the Part 1 Tutorial.  Build the circuit as your follow the tutorial.
2. Then complete the Part 2 Tutorial.  Use your part 1 circuit and add components as you follow part 2.
3. Done?  Click here to submit part 2 where one LED is blinking.  
4. Now follow this tutorial to add multiple blinking lights to your Arduino circuit and sketch.  Click here to submit this completed circuit that blinks MULTIPLE LEDs in sequence.
5. Use your code from that blinks MULTIPLE LEDs and build a circuit using your Arduino and breadboard.  Then upload your code to the Arduino.

today’s agenda:

1. Put the following information on the front of your Engineering Notebook:

Full name

7th period principles of technology

Fall 2017

2. Complete the four electronics activities that we began last week.

3. After you have completed the four activities go into the computer lab and login to a computer.

You will begin learning about Arduino programming and circuit building.

You will build and program virtual circuits first and then go hands-on with the Arduino microcontroller.

You will need a working tinkercad.com account for this unit.

Click here to start your first tutorial.

today:
new Inkscape tool – the Bezier tool

hand back completed Laser Cuts– if you receive your cut back then follow along with the “how to make a laser cut puzzle using Inkscape” video tutorial.

IF you did not get your laser cut back then see me and then watch the video tutorial below that best fits your issue.

Video tutorials (if you don’t have headphones just turn on the closed captioning)

If the cutline is missing OR is not on thousandth of an inch
-set the cutline to one thousandth of inch

if you didn’t save your document as a PDF OR your margins are off
 set the margins of your document AND save as PDF

-import a file into Inkscape and center it on your shape

-how to make a laser cut puzzle using Inkscape

Today’s agenda:

Introduction to Laser Cutting and Engraving – all students

Independent work:

1. if you have not submitted your 3d printed free choice design that is due at the end of class today.  Do this before you work on laser cutting.
2.  if you have submitted your 3d printed free choice design then you may build your own laser cut design.
3. next up: laser cut puzzle. 

1. Complete your 3D printed free choice design

2. Begin work on your Dream Structure CAD/CAM design.

Today-

1. when you submit a design for 3d printing makes sure that it is:
   >an STL file
   >has your last name as part of the filename
   >is emailed to drake3dprinter@gmail.com.  Note that you must use your personal email address.  Your school email does not allow email to be sent or received from non-tamdistrict.org accounts.
2. if you have not sent your keychain design do it today before the end of class.  Click here for details. 
3. once you have submitted your keychain design begin your work on your free choice 3d print.